Peter Grey Bennet, 10th Earl of Tankerville (born 18 October 1956) is a British peer and musician. Until 1980 he was entitled to the courtesy title of Lord Ossulston .
As a member of the House of Lords from 1980 until 1999 he was not a member of a political group. [1]
The only son of Charles Augustus Grey Bennet, 9th Earl of Tankerville , and Georgiana Lilian Maude Wilson, his father's second wife, a daughter of the Rev. Gilbert Wilson, doctor of divinity , he was educated at Grace Cathedral School, San Francisco, Oberlin Conservatory , where he graduated as a Bachelor of Music , and San Francisco State University , where he took an M.A. [2] [3]
On 27 April 1980 he succeeded to the peerages of Baron Ossulston in the peerage of England (1682) and Earl of Tankerville in the peerage of Great Britain (1714). [3] Soon after this, the landed estate at Chillingham Castle was sold. [4]
In 2003, Tankerville was living in San Francisco and working as a musician. [2]